suggestions on programming forums

[Jonathan]

Hey guys; okay right now, me and a friend got
some programming forums up.

But here's the deal-- we've had them since feb,
but no activity, and little to no members.

We had over 15 forums, like four of which
wasn't even remotely connected to websites/webdesign.

Anyways I've revived the spirit, and now we're
down to four forums-- news/feedback, client-side,
server-side, and graphics.

I also realized, and explained this to my friend, we cannot
expect members to just suddenly sign up-- we need to attract them.

Thus, our entire forums (forums as a site) is
basicly for tutorials, mainly submitted to HotScripts and Good-Tutorials.

We're hoping this'll bring in visitors and new members alike.
So my question is-- for just the two of us right now,
posting tutorials to help bring in new members,
what'd be our next step?

Should we split it, so its like five forums?
Two for each submit xcept the news?

So that way it'd be like questions/answers,
then dedicated tutorials forum?? etc

[shalom_m]

Jonathan,

Without trying to be offensive, you seem to have that uncanny gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought – but that is the gift of youth!

Why don’t you just condense all these forums into one single forum with a wide range of topics and plug that forum as best you can?

[Jonathan]

sounds good

And errhm...don't tell the
others bout this flaw

[shalom_m]

! tsaf nrael uoy yoB

[Buddha]

Jonathan run across one of your tutorial on Hotscripts.com checking the new listings. That should bring you some traffic. Been wondering about that...I'ld be interested how much traffic?

[Jonathan]

I actually did that for two tutorials-

PHP inside HTML files (.htaccess) - and JavaScript
alternative to colored scrollbars (so you can keep W3C valid )

Within two days-- got two new members, plus our own james,
as well-- had a few more posts by others, couple more tutorials,
new header image, and finally ~~ during day time the adverage
users online (guests & members) has spiked to bout 6

[shalom_m]

Jonathan, I just had a look at the forum.
You got yourself an new member (It's the rollover cell that did it!)

[Jonathan]

who told u?? (james was it?)

[shalom_m]

Who told me what?

[Jonathan]

the URL to the forums

[Frank Hagan]

I found it via the HotScripts hint you gave, and then posted my CSS conundrum (good suggestion, but it didn't work, so I'm still on my search!)

Forums look pretty good, although I'm partial to lighter colors for backgrounds when I'm using my laptop. But on a CRT monitor or probably a new, flat screen, it looks fine.

[Jonathan]

OOooOoOOoO; I forgot
I added that part bout hotscripts

As for the background color-- not sure
bout laptop but it looks perfect w/ the rest
of the forums for me

[shalom_m]

the URL to the forums

You did.

Went to HotScripts, searched "Javascripts" for "colored scrollbars", well you know the rest.